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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 22</span><span class="fp-text">L'HOMME ET LA BELETTE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula XXII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">MUSTELA ET HOMO</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une Belette, prise par un Homme, cherchait à éviter la mort</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui la menaçait&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Grâce, je vous prie, lui disait-elle, pour celle</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui détruit les rats dont votre maison est infestée.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'Homme lui répondit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Si tu le faisais pour moi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je t'en aurais gré, et je céderai à ta prière ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais, comme tu ne travailles que pour jouir,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">en dévorant les rats eux-mêmes, des restes qu'ils devaient ronger,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">veuille bien ne pas te glorifier et cesse de me vanter tes vains services.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il dit, et tua la méchante bête.</span></span></span></td>
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>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n77/mode/1up">p.14</a>]</span> Mustela ab homine prensa cum instantem necem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">effugere vellet&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Quaeso, inquit, parce mihi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quae tibi molestis muribus purgo domum.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Respondit ille&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Facerem, si causa mea</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">gratum esset ; et dedissem veniam supplici.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nunc quia laboras ut fruaris reliquiis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="quae  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">quas</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quas  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span> sunt rosuri, simul et ipsos devores<span class="fp-correction" title=" Hic intellege soricem esse generis masculini  (orig.)"><span class="fp-no-difference">[...]</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="...  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-difference"> Hic intellege soricem esse generis masculini</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">noli me <span class="fp-correction" title="putare  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">imputare</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="imputare  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">putare</span></span> vanum beneficium mihi.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Atque ita locutus improbam leto dedit.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ici doivent se reconnaître ceux qui n'agissent</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que dans leur propre intérêt,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qui citent impudemment des bienfaits imaginaires.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc in se dictum debent illi agnoscere</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quorum privata servit utilitas sibi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et meritum inane jactant imprudentibus.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-vieux-lion-le-sanglier-le-taureau-et.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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